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>> welcome back. time for your brew on this question of the day responses. earlier in this show we told you ho pizza hut is putting job applicants to the challenge by having them sell themselves in 140 seconds. the job is for a social media position. they said if they could sell themselves in that time they will be able to sell the company in 140 characters or less on twitter. >> we wanted to know if you would be able to do that and here's what some of you had to say. albert tweeted. yes, a space long and presentable and it can be done. don't forget to remember important information about yourself. >> randy tweeted if the prospective employer has my reyes -- resume, i can. >> could i sell myself in 140 seconds? it depends on who is buying. >> thanks to everyone who responded.

>> in business we're trained to do that so i guess it could be pretty easy. thanks to everyone who responded. have a great day. "fox & friends" starts right now. >>gretchen: good morning. it is thursday, march 7, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. i hope you have a great day. we have to tell you about a horrible story that happened at a california animal park. a 24-year-old intern mauled to death by a 320-pound lion. what went wrong? latest details coming your way. >>steve: probably when you were going to bed rand paul was still speaking. a filibuster for the history books over americans using drones on americans. >> many people will remember jane tpopb swivel herself around in the north vietnamese artillery thinking she was at home with the north vietnamese. i'm not a fan of jane

fonda. i'm not interested of putting her on a drone kill list either. >>steve: 13 hours of straight talk. we're going to show you what you missed live from washington, d.c. it was fantastic. >>brian: he did talk with his mouth full. do it for the kids. hundreds of children are calling the white house and saying let me in. they cannot believe their tour has been turned off. "fox & friends" has been turned on by you, and we start now. >>gretchen: good morning. we expected a huge snowstorm this morning, right, and nothing on the ground. so what's up with that? >>brian: supposed to be an on and on thing where it snows a little, doesn't snow a little and when it's said and done we hydroplane home. >>steve: amazing they think, the federal government canceled itself. hundreds of thousands of people didn't have to go to

work even though it was kind of a snowy event inwashing. >>brian: we lost money yesterday because of lack of productivity. >>steve: it was not a big snow day down in washington. the big story in washington was about that filibuster. i watched it until almost 11:00 last night. and on twitter, stand with rand was the highest trending topic line. he was great. >>gretchen: and he fit in a candy bar to boot. >>steve: do you know what kind? >>gretchen: i do. it has to do with the galaxy. horror at an exotic cat sanctuary after an interned terpb was mauled to -- after an intern was mauled by a 320 pound lion. when police arrived on the seen the sherrifs deputy shot and killed the lion.

>> our thoughts and prayers go out to her friends and family at this trying time. >>gretchen: her father says she loved what she did. >> this was her dream working with big cats all day long. nothing but big cats. >>gretchen: it is not clear why she was alone with the lion or exactly what happened. the case is closed. police say no criminal charges will be filed in connection with the death of a woman who was refused c.p.r. at a retirement home. >> it's a human being. is there anybody willing to help this lady and not let her die? >> not at this time. >>gretchen: earlier the retirement home in california said the worker you heard on the tape failed to follow proper procedures and was on voluntary leave pending investigation. low ray bayliss's family said they don't plan on suinged employee. >> the last cardinal

summoned to choose the next pope arrived this morning. the date for the conclave has not been set. sources say it will reportedly begin march 11 but it is likely to be pushed back if the cardinals take more time to examine problems facing the church. >> a day after the white house canceled tours, youngsters are saying the white house is supposed to be our house. let us visit. this group of sixth graders from iowa launched a facebook campaign to get the doors back open. they won't be able to get a peek inside the white house because of president obama scare-quester cuts. >> they're going to shut down the white house during the easter season when washington is overwhelmed by visitors, it is just silly. i want to know who's being laid off at the white house. is this what's going on? all i can say is the capitol is open to visitors. we welcome the american people to come to their

capitol. we've been preparing for the president's sequester for months. >>gretchen: the school says the trip will go on. students will visit other d.c. landmarks. and those are your headlines. it's interesting because an outfit did go down of list of all the jobs of the people at the white house. many of them are relatively high-paid jobs. it's interesting when you take a look at that. >> when you look at how much the white house saves by canceling those tours. $18,000 a week. five minutes on air force one. symbolic? >>brian: cut the tours and everything else. when you went to bed last night rand paul was likely still speaking. the republican senator taking a stand against the use of drones on americans with a 13-hour filibuster. >> i rise today to begin to filibuster john brennan's nomination for the c.i.a. >>brian: at 11:45 p.m.

he went to the a.m. at 12 midnight. i finally dozed off in my soup. peter doocy live in washington. >> there was a big round of applause when senator paul finished filibustering just before 1 am. when he was done he said his feet hurt. remarkably he didn't need to go straight to the restroom when he was done speaking about his belief that president obama's drone policy sun constitutional. >> to be bombed in your sleep, there is nothing american about that. there is nothing constitutional about that. when he says trust him, he says he hasn't done it yet. he says he doesn't intend to do so but he might. mr. president, that's just not good enough. >> a delicious looking milky way bar kept senator

paul's blood sugar up and he said he made many traoeups -- trips to a drawer reportedly full of candy. 15 senators joined him. we heard president obama try to explain his administration's drone policy a few weeks ago but his answers were apparently not satisfactory to more than a dozen senators. >> we respect and have a whole bunch of safeguards in terms of how we conduct counterterrorism operations outside of the united states. the rules outside of the united states are going to be different than the rules inside the united states. >> senator paul says after his marathon filibuster, he would be surprised if the white house didn't respond in some way. and a quick historical note. if senator paul wanted to

break strom thurmond's record for the longest filibuster ever, he would have needed to speak until 5 past noon today. back to you in new york. >>steve: then democrat senator strom thurmond was filibustering back in 1957. he was railing against the civil rights act. he was then a democrat. you know what? rand paul -- i was watching twitter last night and i was looking at all sorts of social media. so many people across the country felt what he was doing was a real public service because he was saying essentially, hey, did you know this administration said they can kill americans on american soil without due process. >>brian: fundamentally what bothers me about this was this was george bush's argument for the longest time. i need to be, as president of the united states have flexibility on behalf -- to actn behalf of the american people. they could come together on this because i never thought george bush was

trying to kill and i never thought president obama would kill somebody who voted against him. >>steve: you can't just go down a list and say that's the one right there. the president can't be a judge and jury. >>gretchen: what about 9/11 when they were considering shooting the airplane out of the air because there were terrorists on board, had it not been for the fact that the passengers brought that plane down, what would we have done as a country? it's an interesting discussion to have. i don't think it's quite as simple as saying we would never do that. we can't imagine what life was like before 9/11 and things changed at that time. it is an interesting discussion but i don't know if it is quite that black and white. >>steve: it is black and white now. it is unconstitutional the way the constitution reads. they've got all these legal opinions, the administration has, where they say we can do this. >>brian: if al-awlaki is

sitting in a restaurant and we know he is as vile as bin laden and for some reason we can't get a direct shot at him, we can shoot him out of the sky, i want my president to have the ability to do that. >>steve: if he's in a washington restaurant, what sort of imminent threat does he pose? >>brian: he has operatives in order. he's got plans on the move. he doesn't actually do the crime. he perpetrates the crime. >>steve: we need rules on how it will be done in the future. >>gretchen: let's pan it out a little bit more. how do you legislate that? how do you say if they're in a coffee shop and there are only two other american citizens with them, you can take out the terrorists. >>brian: they're discussing a fisa court for drones where you have an emergency system where the president of the united states is on the line. guys, need permission to take out this guy. he's at 48th and 6th

avenue. okay. an unfortunate address. 53rd and 8th. >>brian: bad example. they also said you might not have that kind of time. >>steve: given the constitution, given posse comitatus, one man can't decide who to kill. there's got to be due process. nonetheless, you saw her man kaine last night on -- herman cain talk about seeing rand paul was great. >> it is refreshing to see a real filibuster because it underscores the way our government was set up such that you couldn't have an administration or any branch of the government shove something through that might be in the worst interest of the american people. the other thing that a filibuster does, a real filibuster, it gives the

american people time to begin to get familiar with some of the facts of the situation. remember, when president obama forced obamacare down the throats of the american people and nancy pelosi said we have to pass it to tell you what's in it -- you remember that phrase? >> that was the best imitation i think i heard. >> come on, sean, that is an insult to the intelligence of the american people. >>steve: you've got rand paul filibustering last night. it looks as if the u.s. senate will take up the nomination vote for mr. brennan. >>brian: later in the show we'll be talking about the big dinner last night at the jefferson hotel with republicans and the president of the united states. >>steve: pat toomy was there and will be joining us live. he also spoke, asked mr. paul -- dr. paul a question yesterday. >>brian: sounds like you're bragging that you have pat too toomy. >>gretchen: coming up on "fox & friends," hugo

chavez hated america so our flag is being flown at half staff here to honor the dead dictator? >>brian: we just about told you about it. no more white house tours because of the sequester. but don't take away the wine tastings. they're still happening. stuart varney is fired up about this one and he's alcohol-free. >> due to the budget cuts all tours at the white house have been canceled indid he have -- indefinitely. when he heard, joe biden said now i'll never see it. ♪

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>> this is really what the white house is all about. and i say this all the time. it's the people's house. it is a place that is steeped in history, but it's also a place where everyone should feel welcome. and that's why my husband and i have made it our mission to open up the house to as many people as we can. >>steve: now that mission is on hold. why? because the administration says because of the sequester, they can't afford the tours. >>brian: if money is so tight, why are they continuing to sponsor whine tastings and spending big bucks for klieg -- call calligraphers. >> you cut meat inspections of the agriculture department but don't cut the wine tasting tours. you cut the t.s.a.'s budget for pat-downs but don't cut their contract for new

uniforms. what the president is doing is selectively cutting to impose maximum pain. he's putting down the pain to impose political leverage. >>steve: by the way, we did have a u.s. congressman on here yesterday saying essentially the same thing. this president, the first in a very long time, if ever, actually inflicting pain on his own people for political gain. >> i'll go further. it is quite clearly deliberate. the house just passed a bill which would extend these budget cuts, but also give the president the authority, the flexibility to impose the cuts where there is the least pain. he says he's going to veto it. in other words, he will not accept flexibility. he wants to impose the pain. i can't remember a president ever doing that before. the leader of the executive branch imposing deliberate pain on the american people for political advantage. >>brian: it's because he's already on the record saying how bad this is and how he cannot let it happen. and when it does happen, he's backed into a corner

because it looks as though he was crying wolf. >> i think the tide of public opinion is turning against the president. his approval ratings are down sharply. i think because of the selected imposition of pain. >>steve: he called lindsay graham, let's throw together a dinner at the jefferson because his poll numbers are tanking and the sequester is not going his way. >> they did have the dinner, 12 g.o.p. members, i believe. and a couple came out with thumbs up saying everything is great. >>brian: tom was on with varney and company. varney and company starts today at 9:20.

>> thank you so much. thank you. >>gretchen: just leave after that. >>brian: talking ameri football. remember, it's soccer, stuart. >>steve: brian, i think we could be doing the rest of the show ourselves. >>brian: let her go. i've got to tell her what's ahead. soccer superstar hope solo pre-wedding fight night with her fiancee. >> he wasn't involved in the fight? >> i stunned -- a stun gun actually. >>brian: best buy becoming the latest company saying no more working from your house. is this an assault on working parents everywhere? working parents everywhere? a debate coming up. i'm doing my own sleep study.

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>> quick headlines from the control room. new video of a top russian ballet dancer making a court appearance in moscow admitting the master minding. he told the judge he created raffi after the attack and intended to blind the artistic director but didn't do it himself and didn't expect it to be that bad. meanwhile al gore's deal to sell current tv to al-jazeera getting thumbs down from a tv consultant. suing for more than $5 million claiming he pitched the idea months earlier. no comment yet from mr. gore on the suit.

gretch, to you. >>gretchen: this is going to be an interesting discussion. first it was yahoo. now best buy becoming the latest company to put restrictions on employees who want to work from home. the electronics retailer informed its work erstwhile they're not banning telecommuting outright, workers must now get managerial permission before they can continue to work at home instead of at the office. is this policy a good one? here is the chief business officer of completely bare high-tech spas and the c.e.o. for small tech business authority. good morning to both of you. marissa mayer from yahoo set this off last we can when she announced she was going to do the same thing for yao. is this a good or bad idea? people need to sit around in the office together and that increases the bottom line? >> i'm sure this clearly worked for yahoo. at new tech we have business clients across the united states and many of our business clients use

working from home as a tool. it is extremely cost effective for the business owners as well as the employees. >>gretchen: cindy, you believe it is important for people to be together in a room. even body language can play into seeing somebody face-to-face? >> when you're working in a competitive environment, i think it is very important to make sure you can see the person's interaction. there is never one great idea so people build upon different ideas. you need everybody in the room. especially companies like yahoo, best buy. >>gretchen: barry, let me ask you this, because i think people like the idea that they can have this personal freedom to work prosecute home. do you believe -- to work from home. do you believe everyone is always being honest with their hours? >> the fact of the matter is using technology today in our company is very technology savvy. we know exactly what people are doing on the internet. we know exactly what they're doing for their phone system because everything is on our servers. when an employee says they have been on the phone x number of hours, we know how long they have been on

the phone, how long the calls are, who they have spoken to. we know what they're doing on the internet and what they're working on. it's easy for managers to monitor them. >>gretchen: in this high-tech world we live in, everyone can communicate on teleconference, e-mail. but i have to say there is nothing like a face-to-face meeting? >> there is nothing like that. i always bring it back to the basics. if somebody was going to operate on me, would i want the three different doctors communicating outside the hospital? no. i want them in the hospital deciding what they want to do for me. i bring it down to the basics. >>gretchen: i don't want to have any blow-back from women because a lot of women are feeling like this is going to be a slam against them because they're trying to manage raising their kids and at the same time working. and sometimes working at home can be easier. but i know you have a twist on that too. >> i have three-year-old twins. i did try to start working at home. i have to tell you, just kind of keep telling them to get out of the room, mommy has to work is the biggest waste of time, trying to organize your

time. once you leave your work and you come back to the office, most people can't organize themselves. take a whole organization and say try to organize yourself outside the office and see how productive you are, i'd rather be in the policy. >>gretchen: best buy's statement, our new policy is not whether or not an employee can work at home. it used to be a right. now it's a discussion. it sounds like they're not going to say you can't do this. you just have to have a discussion with your manager to see if it works out for you as an individual. >> clearly companies need to manage their staff and companies need to fit their staff with the right technologies. we have solutions for small businesses that are all cloud based. that gives business owners the ability to actually manage the businesses remotely with respect to payment processing, web traffic statistics. it's called the new tech advantage. those are the types of tools business owners have to give their employees to be able to compete going forward. >>gretchen: reminds me of the honor system in high school. thanks so much for your time.

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risk includes possible loss of principal. ♪ the harlem shake >>steve: looks like mitch and company. harlem shake time for senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. that is not really him. but his campaign released a video that's going viral. >>brian: his campaign released it? >>steve: somebody wearing a giant mitch mcconnell mask but a move to the latest craze. there is also somebody dressed as abraham lincoln. >>gretchen: why doesn't he get out there and do it? when i saw it on the rundown this morning, i thought we're going to see mitch mcconnell doing the harlem shake. >>brian: he is up for

reelection. this is an interesting way to launch it. there are a lot of mitch mcconnell heads out there. if you're a young person going to school today, is that viral? >>steve: it could start a trend. >>gretchen: i'm going to start a petition. let's get the real mitch mcconnell out there doing the harlem dance. he >>brian: he wants to win reelection. >>steve: he was up late last night. he was one of the final questioners of senator paul. >>gretchen: they knew an attack was coming. libyan officials warned the obama administration but our consolate being in danger just days before the benghazi attack? that's according to documents the administration just released to the senate. we're being told white house were being told for moving operatives. >>steve: thousands of chavez followers lined in

the streets for a procession. we're now being told the dictator died from a massive heart attack as he was battling cancer. the head of the presidential guard being told chavez could no longer speak. outrage this morning that citgo was flying the u.s. and texas flags at half staff in honor of chavez. u.s. protocol allows for flags to be lowered for foreign dig in a -- dig in dignataries but chavez was a frequent critic of our country. >>brian: we're getting an inside look of a sink hole in florida. it's about 65 feet deep, 125 feet wide and coated in limestone. sink holes are typically filled with sand and silt but erosion and water from an aquifer washed it away

in this case. >>gretchen: did russell crow capture photos of a u.f.o. outside his office in australia? he condensed it into a youtube video. it showed a red streak of light moving across the sky there you see above the trees. skeptics question his claim. but crow insists it wasn't a trick of the light or camera flash. a representative for crow said his friend shot it four years ago but they just decided to release it now. >>steve: it kind of looks like a car going down below and those might be a reflection of the headlines. >>brian: remember dennis cuccinich, he saw a u.f.o. we should have him in. >>steve: or dennis rodman. >>brian: let me tell you what's going on in the world of sports. you have to go back to february 1 to look at the

last time the miami lost a basketball game. it looked like their streak was about to end yesterday. they lebron james stepped up. >> five, on the drive. >>brian: the king continues his m.v.p. caliber season hitting the record with over 3 seconds left. the heat blowing a 20-point lead to orlando but escaped with their 16th straight win 97-96. the prewedding fight no one could forget and now we have it on tape. four calls for help came from soccer star hope solo's house after a fight broke out. we're now getting the first listen. >> there's a little fight inside her house, and she got thrown to the ground. she might have injured her head. >> okay. any weapons involved in the fight? >> a stun gun actually.

>>brian: solo's new house, who i saw last night, former seattle seahawks was arrested after the fight but because there wasn't enough evidence he was released. hours later the two married. good luck. a new study shows soccer players are smarter. soccer players showed more activity in areas associated with high level executive functioning and imus sell coordination. researchers -- and i muscle coordination. researchers ph london were trying to determine what makes one soccer player better than the other. they then published the study and it turns out all soccer players are just smarter than others. coming up on the radio, we'll be talking about this for three straight hours on kilmeade and friend on the

fox radio app. chris wallace will be on talking about last week's mitt romney interview. and kevin ken cucinelli of virginia, he'll be on. >>steve: at 21 minutes before the top of the hour, more than 400 flights already canceled this morning as the storm that slammed parts of west virginia heads east. it brings snow, strong winds and the possibility of coastal flooding to new england. janice dean tracking it all. janice, before we get to the storm today, they closed the federal government yesterday because there was going to be snow-quester, and yet not so much. >> it was a bust. i will say that forecasters across the board, including myself, predicted five to eight inches of snow in and around the district capitol. and that forecast was a bust. they maybe got .4, .4 inches of snow.

i could give you a million reasons why it happened that way. but the bottom line is you can't mess with mother nature. and my hearts go out to all the local forecasters in d.c. this morning because they are having a hard time of it today. we're all eating humble pie. now west of the city, you go 50, 100 miles west of the city, they got snow. so part of the forecast was right, as you can see snow totals. two feet of snow in the mountains of west virginia. 20 inches in the mountains of virginia. even north carolina, half a foot there in the mountains. here's what we're looking at right now. the coastal low is offshore, but still bringing a mix of rain and sleet and snow. even seeing snowflakes here in the new york city area. we're going to be dealing with this storm on and off throughout the day today and into friday, even into saturday. the brunt of it will be the winds and coastal flooding. west of the boston area, you could get a few inches. i'm going to be a little conservative here. you could get a few inches of snow even though this snowfall map says 6 to 12.

but we're all eating humble pie. i prefer apple pie. you know what? sometimes we get it wrong. >>gretchen: you know what, j.d.? you had us prepared. i had my snow boots by the front door today. i heard the wind howling all night. i expected to see inches. when i went downstairs, nothing. >> are you glad about that? >>gretchen: yes. >>steve: janice dean, the honesty machine. >>gretchen: there is a big worry about flooding high winds on an already battered coastline. >> good morning to you. you heard janice talking about the coastal flooding concerns. coastal flooding is a reality here in sea bright. take a look. behind me is the shrewsbury river. the atlantic ocean is on the other side. not a lot of concern on the oceanside but the river behind me has encroached on

this side street and has overtaken part of this town. this is a town that does not need to see a lot of flooding because they have seen plenty of it during sandy. 1,500 residents are here. many people didn't return after sandy. right now they're all hoping that no water gets into their basement. that is the latest live from sea bright, new jersey. back to you. >>brian: next on the rundown, make it hurt. the president wanted to make his promises about the sequester come true. can he do that? judge napolitano here with the constitutionality of it all. >>steve: if you're ever going to get hit by a car, you want this one to hit you. look at that. there's an air bag above

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>>gretchen: 46 minutes past the top of the hour. quick headlines for you now. the findings are in. the most reputable company in america is amazon. they took the top spot from apple. the study looked at things like product quality and how it treats employees. coming in last? a.i.g. for the fifth straight year. if you're ever hit by a car this would be the one you want hitting you. volvo introducing a pedestrian air bag. it deploys from under the hood. this is the area where most head injuries take place in a pedestrian accident. >>steve: meanwhile, a group of the administration's scare quester tactics elite government e-mail shows a push to make government agencies make budget cuts more painful than necessary. it comes as we learn janet napolitano plans to release thousands of illegals

saying the sequester left her no choice. these were illegals being detained. meanwhile, is heaping hurt on to the american public constitutional? judge napolitano says no. >> this is really a new low for the government. my hat is off to senator paul. the public needs to know about drones. the president can't kill wherever he wants. the president also has an obligation to make the government work. so if a mid level manager in the department of agriculture says to his bosses, i have a way to make the meat inspectors be able to do all their meat inspection and delay other work that's not necessary to be done right now, and he's stopped from doing it because that's not painful enough for the american public, because that's not consistent with the administration's propaganda, that is not doing his job. that is not enforcing the federal law. and instead of saying i'll work with you, i'll help you, like ronald reagan

would have, it's i told you so. i'm from new jersey. i told you so. that's basically what the president is doing to the american people when he does this. >>steve: judge, you're saying the president of the united states is deliberately inflicting pain on people? for instance, how many school groups saved for the last year or so so they could go to washington, d.c. during the cherry blossom season, tour the white house, among other things, and now that's closed because it costs $18,000 a week? and the white house wants to save that money. >> how about taking the $50 million that janet napolitano -- cousin janet. kidding. we're not related. spent on new uniforms for t.s.a. agents and allowing those schoolkids be able to visit the white house during the spring break. the president is micro managing the white house in a way consistent with his message of pain. not consistent with his constitutional obligation to enforce the laws whether he agrees with them or not. >>steve: is what he's

doing constitutional? >> it's within his power to do it. but it is so offensive, it's impeachable. >>steve: okay. judge andrew napolitano, those are impeachment words. >> the last time it happened, it was a disaster. but this willful conduct is unacceptable. >>steve: judge napolitano, thank you. coming up, her brother was killed by an illegal alien. now she wants to know why the heck the government is releasing thousands of them. 5,000 in all. she's not buying the sequester excuse either. her story comes up the next hour. who will win? three navy seals versus dangerous animal poachers. we're betting on the seals. they all join us next. [ male announcer ] coughequence™ #8. waking the baby.

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>>brian: a new series on animal planet takes viewers inside animal poaching in south africa. a rhino on the edge of extinction through the high demand for their horns. who better to protect them than our next guests. three navy seals and one green beret. craig sawyer is here, rob roy is here. jeff begs is here and oz all part of battle ground rhino wars. guys, when they approached you for the series, is that the first time you knew this was happening? >> yes. the head of the production company called me and said what do you think about standing up a team of americans to go take down these poachers to try to save the last of an

endangered species. eup said let's make it happen. >> you collected these three guys. oz, what did you find? >> i think our organizational skills were in high demand because it is a very complex battle field. we didn't expect that. we fell back on our military training in order to be able to tackle the fight. >>brian: were you joined by people out in the field? were you joined by people in the field that knew the area, knew the terrain and you learned stuff from them? >> we countered with them. we loved it. we got with them. we did everything with them. it was south africa and america put together, and we made it happen together. everything was together. >>brian: you're not saving people. you're saving rhinos. what was it like out in the field? >> it is a different culture and we had to spend a lot of time understanding that first. then we got into what our job was supposed to be, protecting the rhinos and dealing with the people. it was a different battle.

>>brian: who are the poachers? >> everyone from hard-core thug from mozambique and zimbabwe, packing the rhinos and selling them to dealers in asia. >>brian: to see that, how did it motivate you? >> it was a tragedy to see the rhinos up close and personal. we're all decorated combat veterans. it will pull on your heart strings. it angered us and made us motivated to get in there and make a difference. >>brian: how dangerous are these guys? >> these guys are evil. evil is evil. you can't compare it to anything else. all they want to do is kill and they want the green. they want the money and it doesn't matter who gets in the way of it. >>brian: can you kill them? >> in self-defense. >> we're not there to kill anybody. >> we're there to save the rhinos. >>brian: how do you save a rhino who might not be appreciative of what you're doing? are you in danger of the

rhino when you're in their sreupb -- vicinity? >> it is a dangerous environment. >>brian: how much better is the green beret training as opposed to the navy seal training? >> better. >>brian: a lot better? >> they got a cooler hat. >>brian: okay, that's it. that's all you'll give. together you're one team and part of a great series. we're going to watch "rhino wars" or tivo. at 9:00 eastern time on the animal planet. thanks so much for coming in, guys. looks like a great series. i don't know better, the after party or watching you save the rhinos. with your permission, i'd like to go out. coming up straight ahead, a dinner date with the president.

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>> gretchen: good morning, everybody. it's thursday, march 7, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time with us today. we have a horrible story to tell you about in an animal park. 24-year-old intern mauled to death bay 350-pound lion. what exactly went wrong? the very latest and insight from jack hannah. he will join us live this hour. >> brian: senator rand paul, 13 hours straight talking against drones. >> many people will remember jane fonda swivelling herself around in a north vietnamese artilleries and thinking gleefully that she was right at home with the north vietnamese. now, i'm not a great fan of hers. i'm really not so interested in putting her on a drone kill list either. >> brian: all right. another senator will talk about

another exciting event, dinner with the president and other gop colleagues at a restaurant. >> steve: a new economy, new employment world and now the new interview. 140 seconds. that's all you could do it in. can you believe that? that's all you get. we're going to explain that and so much more. "fox & friends" hour two for this thursday starts right now. >> steve: we just showed the clip of rand paul having a food break. he took a bite of milky way. if you were going to have a bite of something in 13 hours works it be that? >> brian: it taste good, but remember the nugget is stretchy. just a little stretchy. >> gretchen: what are the rules about fill bust. >> rick: when -- filibuster,

could he talk? >> steve: they have to stand of the the others don't talk. they have to ask him questions. >> gretchen: there is the milky way. >> brian: here is the other thing. a democrat sided with him. >> steve: yeah. >> brian: at least a little side of bipartisanship on something besides dinner. >> gretchen: don't hold your breath. >> steve: i think in all, two democrats actually stood and asked him questions and we'll have a report live from washington on that in a minute. first, off to north korea. >> gretchen: your headlines. north korea threatening the united states hours before the u.n. will vote on a new round of sanctions. they vowed to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on america. the u.n. security council is set to impose a fourth round of sanctions over their latest nuclear tests. it's not believed they have the capability yet to reach the united states. the threat probably not going to help dennis rodman's efforts to score a peace deal with kim jong-un and president obama. horror at an exotic cat sanctuary in california after an intern was mauled to death by a

350-pound african lion. 24-year-old diana hanson was inside the enclosure alone when the lion attacked her. police arrived on the scene, shooting and killing the four-year-old animal. >> our thoughts and prayers go out to our friend and family and to her family at this time n this trying time. >> gretchen: her father says she loved what she did. >> she could work with nothing but big cats all day long. >> gretchen: it's still not clear why she was alone with the lion. coming up, wildlife expert jack hannah will join us with more on this story and his expert insight. the case is closed now, police say no criminal charges will be filed in connection with the death of a woman who was refused cpr at a retirement home. >> they're refusing cpr. as a human being, is there anybody there that's willing to help this lady and not let her

die? >> not at this time. >> gretchen: earlier the retirement home in california had said the worker you just heard on the tape failed to follow proper procedures and on voluntary leave pending an investigation. the family of the family says they don't plan on suing the facility or any of its employees. brand-new video from vatican city. there he is. the last cardinal summoned to choose the next pope arriving this morning of the he's from vietnam. the date for the conclave still not set. sources have said it will reportedly begin march 11, but it's likely to be pushed back as the cardinals take more time to examine the problems facing the catholic church. i guess we won't have a new pope before easter, which was one of the goals. >> steve: they might be able to work it in. >> brian: those cardinals, when they get focused, no stopping them. >> steve: exactly. >> brian: that was my transition. chances are republican senator rand paul was still speaking when he went to sleep last night, taking nearly 13 hours against john brennan's

nomination to lead the c.i.a. and they're going to vote on his nomination today. peter doocy live in washington with more. >> brian, senator paul says his feet hurt and that he wasn't wearing the most comfortable shoes for his 12-hour and 52-minute long filibuster that started before noon and ended at 20 to 1:00 o'clock in the morning. the junior senator from kentucky says he didn't really have a plan going into yesterday, but he clearly stated many different ways that he does not think it's constitutional for the american government to use drones against american citizens. >> to be bombed in your sleep, there is nothing american about that. there is nothing constitutional about that. but he says trust him. he says he hasn't done it yet. he says he doesn't intend to do so, but he might. mr. president, that's just not good enough. >> a milky way bar that looked delicious helped curb senator paul's appetite.

he also got a food assist from senator mark kirk who brought him an apple and green tea to keep going. a total of 15 senators, including two democrats participated in the filibuster. generally asking long questions to give paul a breather, but at one point, texas senator ted cruz read tweets baring the hash tag, stand with rand, as a sort of high-tech update to the scene in "mr. smith goes to washington" where telegrams were read on the floor. president obama tried to address concerns about his administration's drone policy a few weeks ago, but apparently didn't say enough for more than a dozen u.s. senators. >> we respect and have a whole bunch of safeguards in terms of how we conduct counterterrorism operations outside of the united states. the rules outside the united states are going to be different than the rules inside the united states. >> senator paul says after his marathon filibuster, he would be

surprised if the white house didn't respond in some way. back to you in new york. >> steve: they haven't so far. thank you. developing news out of washington, d.c., president obama has just invited congressman paul ryan to lunch today at the white house. it's all part of his attempt to charm offense across the aisle. last night the president hosted a rare dinner for a small group of republican senators, including pennsylvania start pat toomey who joins us live from capitol hill right now. good morning to you. >> good morning, guys. >> steve: what is the president up to? why is he finally reaching across the aisle? >> well, you know, i'm not sure what his motivation is. he is the only one who knows that for sure. but i would suggest that the approach of campaigning in america and really being quite confrontational hasn't been working so well and so i'm hoping that this is a new approach on the part of the president to reach out, to have some dialogue to see if there is common ground because we've got some really serious challenges and so much we could accomplish

if we can find that common ground. >> brian: senator, you could always tell if somebody is engaged and actually wants to hear your ideas and you are one of the smartest guys in the senate when it comes to dollars and cents. was there a legitimate talk back and forth about -- or was it just small talk about the storm and about how bad the yankees will be this year? >> not a lot on the yankees. but actually it was very candid, it was cordial, but also substantive. it really was. everybody had a chance to make points they wanted to make. there was back and forth. there was substantive discussion about actual fiscal policy, priorities and alternatives and ideas. so the idea wasn't that we were going to negotiate a deal last night. that was never part of the plan. that isn't going to happen over one dinner. but i think it was a constructive exchange. >> gretchen: were there specifics, senator? there has been a lot made overt last couple of days about whether or not the president has actually offered specifics as

far as spending cuts. i guess i'm talking about the big elephant in the room, which would be the entitlements. were there specific discussions about that? >> there were some specifics. not nearly as specific as we're going to have to get if we're going to reach some kind of an agreement. but again, the purpose of this first dinner wasn't to lay out negotiating positions and start to do that haggling. it was more sort of understand where we're coming from, what are the priorities on each side, how might -- >> gretchen: doesn't he know that? doesn't the president know that? why after five years would he suddenly decide to have a dinner? >> you'd be surprised. if you don't actually sit down and speak with the person on the other side, you may have a mistaken impression about what the priorities really are, where there is some flexibility and where there is not so much. i just think it's constructive to sit down face-to-face and have that conversation. >> steve: i think sit, chat and chew is a good way. there are a lot of people who

are skeptical, who say look, the president had a bad week last week. the sequester cuts not nearly as scary as he promised they were going to be. his poll numbers are dropping. next thing you know, he picks up the phone and calls lindsey graham and says, can you get a bunch of guys together for supper? >> yeah, listen. i understand that. those are valid observations. i think you're absolutely right. the president and the administration went way overboard unpredicting the apom lips of the waste -- apocalypse and i think most americans get they can trim 1% without the end of civilization. i think it's constructive that we'll achieve the savings of the sequester. i have think better still, we're going to do it in a more sensible way than the way the underlying law did it but capture the savings and have discretionary spending cut back to where it was before president obama took office, i think. and so that's progress. but it's the small stuff.

we need pro growth tax reform. we need to get on a sustainable fiscal path. i think it's flawed policy in washington that's the reason our economy is so weak right now. >> brian: let me tell you what some left wing columnists are saying. this shows mitch mcconnell is not representing you the right way and there are some people that want to get out in front and let the president know, like yourself, that you are more willing to deal than your leadership presents. is that true? >> no, i don't think that's true. i don't think mitch mcconnell sees his role as being the negotiator on behalf of the senate or republicans in the senate. he's our leader and he plays an important role, but there has to be a consensus among a pretty large number of republican senators on a big policy that we're going to embrace. no one individual senator makes that happen. >> gretchen: can i ask you this? how does it work at the end of the dinner when the president takes you out to dinner? does he break out a credit card? [ laughter ] >> no, it didn't work out quite that way.

at least i didn't see that part of it. i suspect what happens is the folks who were on the restaurant send the bill to somebody at the white house. >> steve: i bet. before you go, sir, you were one of the senators who stood up with rand paul yesterday, asked them a question. how did that make you feel and how important was what he was doing? >> i was very proud of senator rand paul. what he did, a great personal inconvenience to himself, was to force the senate to focus on a very, very important question, a question that they can't get a straight answer to and i think we all want one, which is simply this: does the administration believe that it has the authority to murder an american citizen with a drone on american soil, a noncombatant? we're not talking about somebody who is firing rockets. we're talking about someone who may be sipping coffee at starbucks or sleeping in an apartment and the administration refuses to acknowledge that they don't have the authority to blow someone up on american soil under those kinds of circumstances and that should be

disturbing to all of us. i give senator paul a great deal of credit for focusing on this. >> brian: or a system to find out if that is al al-awlaki or bin laden. thank you for joining us this morning. a lot of action in your life. >> yeah. >> steve: take it easy today. >> i'll try. >> gretchen: coming up, her brother was killed by an illegal immigrant. now she wants to know why the government is releasing thousands of them and she's not buying the sequester excuse. her message to the president next. >> brian: and think about buying something? we'll watch "anger management." you learn lot from adam sandler [ male announcer ] it's a rule of nature. you don't decide when vegetables reach the peak of perfection. the vegetables do. at green giant, we pk vegetables only when they're perfect.

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>> brian: back to our top story, shocking lion attack in california. a lion hand raised since he was

eight weeks old at an animal sanctuary attacks and killed a intern. >> gretchen: she had worked at cat haven for a few weeks. now the question that everyone is trying to answer, what provoked that attack? >> steve: we are now joined by director emeritus and friend of this program at the columbus zoo, jack hannah. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: okay. apparently what happened was for some unknown reason, these two young women were in a cage with a dangerous animal. that's not the way it's supposed to be done, is it? >> the protocol, from what i understand is as of last night, no one could figure out what she was doing in there. she was there. she obviously had keys. they feed the animals at a different enclosure. this sanctuary is very well thought of. there are rules about that. why did she go in there? sometimes no one knows. her father, according to a quote i read this morning, said she's totally fearless. that's where a train wreck can

happen, especially a youngster who just got there. there is a comfort zone of the animal and comfort zone of me or the staff at a zoo. we don't go in with big cats like that. we feed them and we leave them alone after their six, eight months old. here, i don't know if she was trying to -- she had total love for cats, you read about the girl. it's a tragedy. let's say she says, wow, that's a beautiful animal. people are fascinated by them. let's see what that animal is like. let's try it. what happened was, it was a bomb going on. this guy doesn't know her that well. in the cat world, they work there for six months or a year before they're allowed to get near the cat. obviously familiarity, who know what is caused this? >> gretchen: we just said in the lead in to you that this particular lion was hand fed since eight weeks old. do you never take out the wild of an animal even if it's been raised around humans for four

years? >> i was told you can train a wild animal. you can't tame one. they're still wild. i've raised lions and tigers for other zoos and parks. i know what it's like. i had to pick up the arm of a three-year-old boy, friends of ours, who somehow got over there, i wasn't there. but the point is, i was called, rushed there by a state trooper. i had to pick up a little arm in an enclosure, the entire arm torn off at the shoulder and take it to the ambulance and give it to the man. you don't think i don't live with that the rest of my life. i can tell you other stories. the.is that these things are very dangerous. they're wild animals, but we try and educate folks. people don't know this, back in 1978, there were very few lions or there were a lot of lions in africa like rabbits. today, there are 60%. if this continues, they will be extinct in 30 years. we must teach the people, educate the public about these animals. with tense of thousands of animals we have, something was

going to probably happen sometime, but this is a situation, i think you'll find out, that she wanted to see what the lion was like. i think that will come out in the end and you saw what the results are. >> brian: jack hannah, we hate bringing you on for situations like this, but there is nobody better. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thanks a lot. sorry for the family. >> steve: indeed. straight ahead, a new economy, a new employment world. now the new interview. it lasts 140 seconds. could you sell yourself in that much time? that's all you might get. >> gretchen: then 'tis the season for botox? this is plastic surgery's busiest time of year. so before you go, you better stick around. the questions you need to ask if you want to get nipped and tucked. >> steve: time for liposuction on this commercial. >> brian: i don't know about nipped. maybe tucked my wife takes centrum silver. i've been on the fence about it.

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>> brian: time for news by the numbers. 606. that's how many new jobs the federal government is adding. the postings are on usajobs.com gov. this comes despite warnings of major layoffs due to the sequester. 140 seconds, job applicant also have for a job interview for a job at pizza hut. they say if the candidate can sell themselves in that time, they can sell the company in 140 characters or less on twitter. the nba fan won for hitting that shot. the money is going to help pay for his wife's cancer treatment. great story, great shot. steve? >> steve: that is great.

thanks, brian. the botox business is booming. actually all plastic surgery is right now. according to the american society of plastic surgeons, cosmetic plastic surgery procedures rows in the last year. if you're thinking about getting some work done, we have the questions you need to ask your doctor. joining us now is board certified plastic surgeon, dr. ellie levine. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: why is winter the most frequent time to go in and see the plastic surgeon? >> as we head further into winter, people start realizing they'll have to be wearing a little more revealing clothing, maybe a bathing suit in a few months. they begin to appreciate that, showing off their body will be more important. >> steve: time to think about the lipo. >> exactly. >> steve: we got three questions that if you're thinking about it. first of all, are they board certified? i figured everybody was board certified. >> that's a really important point. finding out whether your surgeon or practitioner is board certified is important.

but equal israeli important is finding out what field they're board certified in. if they're board certified for a surgical procedure is really important. if board certified in internal medicine, one of the fields where the core principles and core teachings don't involve cosmetics, you might be setting yourself up. >> steve: i read somewhere that because botox is so popular these days, some doctors are able to go in and take a little weekend course and learn how it do it. they might be a doctor in a completely different field, but they can make money shooting people up with botox. >> that works. in many instances, people have great success with it. patients, that is. the problem is, do they have the ability to solve problems if they get into trouble? if someone has a different type of anatomy? that's where the training comes in. it's not just amateur of doing the procedure, but can you take care of anything that might happen with the procedure? >> steve: that's why this next question is so important. how much experience do they have? >> this is tough to answer. because if you go on-line and

doesn't matter where you live, people's web sites show they do anything and everything. really one of the clues is there are four subspecialties. people that can do extra train in cosmetic work and pediatric and hand surgery. if you find out if they have extensive experience in cosmetic work, then you're in great shape. but if you find they have hand training, they may be great, but then again f you're sitting in the reception area and see eight people in cast, maybe they do more hand surgery. >> steve: good point. what will it cost me and why? >> so costs vary by region. the real thing you have to look at when assessing these things is shop around a little bit. see what different people are charging. >> steve: really? call on the phone? >> go visit with them course there are two factors you'll get from visiting. one, is a sense of really whether they are listening to you and in tune you want to the other is you'll get a sense of cost differences. this is a serious, important and

exciting decision. so you really want to have a comfort level with your practitioner. >> steve: for folks wondering how much this costs, we've got the average price of popular surgeries, botox, 250 to $500 per area. lip injection, 500 to 1,000. breast enhancement or reduction, about 10,000. if you need to have your nose job done, 6 to 10,000. tucky tuck there, it all is. you said drop by, talk to some different doctors, get some prices. but ultimately, you got to go with the guy you who feel will do the best job? >> exactly. >> steve: doctor, a real pleasure. thank you for making a house call today. >> my pleasure. >> steve: studio call. next up, a woman who finds nothing funny about the political games in washington. her brother was killed by an illegal. now she wants to know why the heck the government is releasing thousands of them. her message for the president coming up. then she called the killing of jews, quote, sweet news. but she's worried that she's

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>> a major snow storm hit the east coast. big one. did you know this? yeah. in washington, d.c., no work got done. everything in the capitol ground to a halt and then the snow storm hit. [ laughter ] >> brian: it's true. >> steve: they hardly got any

snow there. >> gretchen: the snow-quester that wasn't. >> steve: that's right. now some questions on the snow-quester. meanwhile, new video into the fox news room from bridgewater,t ended up a bust in washington, d.c. moving its way up the east. you can see drivers dealing with the snowy and wet commute, as you look at the pictures. more than 450 flights have been canceled today. janis dean joins us outside. there were thousands canceled yesterday. >> yes. the snow-quester that was no quester. what they're calling it. my heart goes out to all the folks who were forecasting in dc because you can tell that a lot of them are hanging their hats today because we got the forecast wrong. what can i tell you? the storm itself is bringing snow flurry activity to the new york area. it's not going to be a big snow event here in new york, but up the coast towards boston, we could get several inches. already reporting one to three inches in and around the boston area. you saw the wind gusts. we're going to see consistent

wind gusts in excess of 30 miles per hour all along the coast, all those vulnerable areas, coastal new jersey, connecticut, long island that were hit hard by hurricane sandy, all those natural barriers are gone. so coastal flooding certainly and those winds and the beach erosion is going to continue. so there you have your winter storm advisories. look at those sustained winds. we're talking about 24, 23 along the coast and gusts 40 to 50, even 60 miles per hour, especially as we head up towards the new england area. there is your morning travel delays. certainly if you live across the northeast, you want to call ahead. but the storm itself is going to linger offshore. we'll see some snow flurry activity and some winds and then perhaps a few inches of snow west of boston. back to you inside. >> steve: all right. thank you very much. >> gretchen: time for your headlines. they knew an attack was coming. the libyan warned the obama administration days before the benghazi terrorist attack, that's according to documents that was released to the senate. we're also being told that white

house and c.i.a. press officers were responsible for removing al-qaeda references in those very important talking points. >> brian: the state department about to honor anti-semite and 9-11 supporter. michelle obama and john kerry will present women of courage awards. among them, a woman known for vicious tweets about the u.s., yeah, that's us, and the jewish people. she referenced hitler. moments after a deadly attack on israeli tourists last july, she tweeted, quote, an explosion on a bus carrying israelis in the airport in bulgaria on the black sea. today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news. she's trying to recant, claiming her twitter account was stolen. >> steve: we've heard that before. meanwhile a sheriff's deputy runs straight into a burning house to save the family inside. all caught on camera. take a look. you can see him run for the front door.

oh, my goodness. burning pieces of wood falling from the ceiling. did not stop him. the deputy found 76-year-old man and his dog inside, saved them. the man's wife had made it out already on her own. >> it was kind of scary when i first walked up to the front 'cause it was really blazed. >> steve: fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt. the fire started by a wood stove on the front porch. >> brian: attack on the second amendment. democratic state senator gibson push ago bill to require anger management classes for anyone buying ammo. someone who has not taken the classes. supporters of the right to bear arms outraged. >> this presumption is that people are somehow angry when they buy ammunition. whether you're going sports shooting or hunting or just want

to be able to protect their family and loved ones. >> brian: going sporting or wanting to protect your loved ones. gibson maintains it's an issue of public safety. gretch? >> gretchen: thank you, brian. the department of homeland security set to release thousands of illegal immigrants. they say it all is thanks to the sequester. but states across the country are wondering, will americans ultimately pay the price fort government's dangerous decision? >> there is no information forth coming from dhs about who these people are, what kind of crimes they've committed, where they're being turned out. that is very troubling not only for our law enforcement, for the citizens across this country. so i don't know how you would describe it as anything other than a federally-sponsored jail break. >> gretchen: joining me now is a woman whose brother was killed when his car was hit by an illegal immigrant. she's infuriated by the government's decision. good morning.

>> good morning. >> gretchen: i'm so sorry for your loss of your brother. i know this must bring up all those emotions again when you see the release now of illegal immigrants because of sequester. what are your thoughts on that? >> it's very frustrating and infuriateing. from what i understand, the president had an opportunity to pick and choose what programs the cuts were going to affect. he could, at that time, have taken a stand and not allowed these illegal immigrants to be released. doing this is a dangerous, of course, politically-motivated also. and releasing these criminal immigrants, this administration is needlessly putting the american people in danger. >> gretchen: the president and the white house say that it was not their decision. they said it was ice's decision, the immigration authority's. now the immigration authority

under janet napolitano say it's not their decision. so i'm not really sure whose decision it was. in the end, one of the questions that's been at the top of my mind is what happens if another crime like the one your brother went through happens as a result of it? what do you think? >> it's happening every day. if they were going to worry about the cuts and letting these criminals out on the street, where are they going to go? we're still going to support them anyway. they're criminals. they need to be in jail, behind bars, and/or deported. it's ridiculous. i just wonder what the president would do if it happened to him. in all honesty, it's politically motivated, from what i can see. and he needs to take a stand. he had the opportunity to. stop blaming president bush.

now he's going to blame the republicans. this is ridiculous. nobody wants to take a stand and do the right thing, have some courage and conviction. >> gretchen: bring me up to speed on where the case stands with your brother. i know that -- was it an illegal immigrant who was a woman driving the car? >> a woman. exactly. >> gretchen: she never faced charges, right? what happened? >> she never spent a day in jail she wanted to go home to portugal. that was her main goal and everything went exactly her way, as if, you know, they were catering to her and she -- her and her whole family were deported. they got a free ride home to portugal. it was postponed and postponed and i asked one time, what's the delay? and they said, oh, she wants to wait for her daughter to finish school. that's exactly what happened. >> gretchen: all right. maureen, so sorry to bring up

all the emotions with you today. but we appreciate your thoughts. all the best. >> thank you, gretchen. i appreciate it. >> gretchen: you're welcome. teachers unions aren't very big fans of john stossel. did you hear that, stossel? >> yes. >> gretchen: here is the proof. >> shame on you! shame on you! >> gretchen: shaman to stossel, you're on camera. how do you feel? [ laughter ] he says unions aren't the biggest problems with schools. he's up next. plus, "saturday night live" mocked jesus. now they're paying the price in a big way? new honey bunches of oats greek yogurt and whole grain.

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>> gretchen: 45 minutes after the top of the morning. america's largest reconcile retailers, y j.c. penney and macy's yanking ads from "saturday night live." they mocked jesus. the spoof on the film "django unchained." new look at a chinese official who went berserk at an airport. the government official flipping out after he missed his second flight of the day. he goes as far as trying to smash the airport's window with a metal sign. he's since apologized and has been suspended from his job. brian? >> shame on you! >> brian: the teachers union not big fans of john stossel, at least that union and that day. why? because he thinks our nation's education system needs to be

fixed. >> it's like this jabba the hut thing that can't be budged. the blob is the teachers union, janitors unions, the politician attention, the school board bureaucrat. if you try make a change, the blob says -- >> we don't do that here. >> brian: that's a clip from his education special that john stossel will be hosting on fbn. john, what do you mean it's a blob? it's more than just the unions. it's more than that. >> yeah, i was wrong. i used to think it was just the unions and those union teachers were mad at me 'cause i was saying that. but even states where unions are weak, you can't get change throughout education bureaucrats. there is no market. it's a government monopoly. so like this blob, you can't budge it. but the good news is now there are gradual changes and great schools starting to happen. >> brian: within the system or outside the system? >> both. and once mom says, gee, johnny is out in the street! he likes going to school!

i want that. more people will want that, too. it will push for more change. >> brian: that was from another network when you were there. >> i did my first "stupid in america" show and they got mad. >> brian: it was the teachers unions mad at you? >> 600 teachers showed up saying, teach, john. you don't know what it's like! you should teach. >> i said, i'll teach. give may class. they said, okay. no, we're not going to do that. >> brian: this is the two things that i think education has going for them, why i think it will be reformed. teachers are often the most influential and some of the best people you're going to meet more often than not and parents will do for the most part, anything for their kids. >> yes. >> brian: so the motivation is in the right places if we get out of their way. >> there is huge money there. teachers could make $300,000 a year if they just got the money. we've tripled spending in education since i was in college. test scores at the bottom there, stayed flat. if the money were assigned to the kids, it's like $15,000 per kid now in many schools.

that's $400,000 per classroom. >> brian: why are they having so hard of a time coming up with a system that effectively grades the teachers effectiveness? >> it's the blob. >> brian: 'cause unions want to stop it? >> no. some principals don't like it. that one is mostly union. that's a government monday knopffully -- monopoly. far better if it were consumer directed. >> brian: we're going to see your special, you do the best specials around. education blob is your new focus. it's on fbn, tonight at 9. i love watching him on the weekends on fox channel as well 'cause they often represent them. and i'm sure they pay him. >> no, they don't. >> brian: i have to get you more money. thank you very much. 12 minutes before the top of the hour. next on our rundown, take a look. we have an $8 pasta sauce and one that costs $35 a jar. we are going to see if we could taste the difference with a blind taste test unrehearsed.

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pasta sauce? >> brian: if it's good. steven smith is the maker of sunday gravy and it's the most expensive pasta sauce in town. welcome. >> thank you. >> brian: what headaches it so expensive? >> actually, it's the amount of meat that's in it. and the braising cook time. >> steve: we were having a conversation about a week ago, he was calling it sauce and i said he wasn't very italian because true italians refer to it as gravy, right? >> there is two camps. some people call it gravy. people who know call it gravy, i like to say. but some call it sauce. >> steve: you're in that camp. >> gretchen: your story is you remember watching in your family and your grandma making it. you brasie and the pork and sausage eight hours? >> you sear it and then braise. >> steve: thirty-five dollars for a jar is a lot, isn't it? >> well, not really when you break it down.

>> brian: so can we do this test now? >> yes. >> brian: we're going to test it and see if we can taste the difference. >> gretchen: what about if we don't pick yours? >> brian: you are confident we're going to pick yours. >> gretchen: i'm just wondering, 'cause we're going to test it against two other -- should we say who? i guess not. >> brian: this is exciting. you would think we have blind test music. like that. >> gretchen: i got it tell you, i'm going to be able to tell which someone is yours by looking at it, i think. i think he gave the secret away. >> steve: one of the things about this sauce is because it's got all this fresh stuff in it, you pretty much have to eat it within a week, right? >> yes. it's a fresh sauce. you have to keep it in the refrigerator. it has a shelf life of a week. >> steve: it's going to be between -- look at this. you don't have to get so fancy. he's warming it up.

very nice. are you nervous? >> brian: i would be. we have a minute left. >> steve: get your forks out. let's first try sauce number one, everybody. >> brian: do you have sherbet to wash my pallet? >> steve: gretch? >> gretchen: i'm just going to dip my fork. >> steve: all right. sauce number two. brian, real quick. >> gretchen: the first one is sweet. >> steve: finally, sauce number 3. >> gretchen: that's a little bit more -- >> brian: chunky. >> gretchen: tangy. >> steve: look at all that meat in there. that's! >> gretchen: you can tell just by looking at it. look at all that meat. >> brian: is that you? >> that's the home made gravy. >> gretchen: let's be fair to season, if you want to come to brooklyn and by it, it's $25.

if you want it shipped on the internet, it's 35. >> brian: but i will tell you that you'll do anything for the right sauce. it makes or breaks a meal. >> there is a pound and a half of meat in each jar. >> steve: how do you get it on the internet for folks in omaha? >> sundaygravynyc.com. >> brian: do you have protection? because you're going to need it because there is a 12-man crew. >> i brought extras. >> brian: guys, you get to eat! >> gretchen: thanks for introducing me to gravy, the real one. coming up, 12 republican senators got the invite to dinner with the president, but the leadership did not. is the president trying to go around them or trying out new people? michelle malkin on that, top of the hour. >> brian: also on deck, bob massi, brothers bobby and jamie dean also cook with us. how they're not like their mom in certain ways.

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>> gretchen: good morning, everybody. it's thursday, march 7, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time with us today. now that we're all well fed, let's tell you about the news. there is unfortunately, a horrific story coming out of california today at an animal park. a 24-year-old intern mauled to death by a huge lion. so what went wrong? this morning her father is giving us his reaction. >> steve: meanwhile, it was a filibuster story for the history books. senator rand paul of kentucky delaying a vote over drones and the new c.i.a. guy by talking for 13 straight hours. >> notification is the buzz of the drone as it flies overhead in the seconds before you're killed. is that what we really want from our government? >> steve: we're going to show you what you missed when michelle malkin joins us to weigh in as she stands with rand moments from now. >> brian: we're not going to show you everything on this

'cause that would take 12 hours. and do it for the kids. hundreds calling on the white house to let them in because tours have been shut off. "fox & friends" starts now. >> steve: we should point out the other two sauces were also delicious. >> brian: they were pretty good. not bad. >> gretchen: i don't like eating pasta and sauce before 8:00 o'clock in the morning. >> steve: this is pretty much noon. >> brian: this is a late night snack for us. >> gretchen: where is the red wine? [ laughter ] >> steve: that's at noon. >> gretchen: just asking. goes well with surface. in the meantime, let's bring you headlines. the snow-quester, a no quester in washington. forecasters called for ten inches of snow. even though it was mostly rain, the threat shut down federal offices. this morning the storm moving east, this is bridgewater, massachusetts. for flyers, many are stranded.

more than 450 flights have been canceled today. north korea threatening the united states hours before the u.n. will vote on a new round of sanctions. the country vowed to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on america. the u.n. security council is set to impose a fourth round of sanctions over the country's latest nuke leer test. it's not believed north korea has the capability, at least yet, to reach the u.s. the threat probably not going to help dennis rodman's efforts to score a peace deal with kim jong-un and president obama. rodman's publicist says he's already planning to go back there within six months. >> brian: his best friend. he wants to see him again. >> gretchen: exotic cat sank we are in california, an intern mauled to death by a 350-pound african lion the 24-year-old was by herself inside the leo's enclosure at cat haven when the cat attacked her. police arrived on the scene, shooting and killing the four-year-old animal. wildlife expert jack hannah joined us earlier with some insight on this tragedy.

>> according to a quote i read, the father said she's totally fearless. now, that's where a train wreck can happen, especially a youngster who just got there. whenever you work with wild animals, in the zoo or the wild, there is a comfort zone of the animal and a comfort zone of me or the keeper or staff at a zoo. >> gretchen: an investigation is underway to what may have provoked the lion. a day after the white house canceled all of its tours, youngsters across the country firing back now at washington, saying the white house is our house. please, let us still come for a visit. this group of sixth graders from iowa launched a facebook campaign to get the doors back open. they're headed to dc next week for a school trip. but they're disappointed that after fundraising for months, they won't get the chance to see the inside of the white house thanks to the scare-quester cuts. those are your headlines. >> steve: that's right. >> brian: let's bring in michelle malkin. there is a lot to discuss, michelle, in the news from senator rand paul's marathon to dinner for 21 at the jefferson. first things first, senator rand

paul, won a lot of respect, didn't snow. >> he sure did. it was rivetting tv all through the day and night last night. in fact, filibuster and stand with rand were hash tags on twitter that were trending not just in the u.s., but world wide! here is the republican party that has been puzzling about its tarnished brand and trying to figure out a way to reach out to nontraditional constituencies. well, it happened last night! as a result of this incredible show, not just from rand paul, but he had back up support from other tea party senators, primarily ted cruz and then marco rubio. and then sometime in the midnight hour, mitch mcconnell finally wandered on to provide support for his fellow kentuckian. and even if there are internal disagreements among republicans and conservatives about the actual policy and the extent of what presidential authority should be in war time, the fact

that you had a singular figure grab the platform, the spotlight, seize the narrative, and force a very uncomfortable issue in front of the white house and the world, that's the kind of leadership that a lot of conservatives have been looking for for sure. >> steve: it was interesting because officially washington, d.c. shut down, you know, because of the snow storm that never was. yet, here is this guy from kentucky, he went to washington to stand for something and he wound up standing there talking for 13 hours because he feels, and i completely agree with him -- well, it's against the constitution to do what this administration does and would do hype thetically, and that is you can not target an american on american soil. that's why all these politicians, some democrats along with republicans, michelle, stood up withstand last night. watch. >> i rise today to begin to filibuster john brennan's nomination for the c.i.a.

i will speak until i can no longer speak. i'd like to ask your reactions to the testimony that attorney general -- >> senator from kansas, without yielding the floor if i can. >> most americans would find it repulsive. >> i would entertain a question without yielding the floor. >> extraordinary threat to our country. >> i would yield without yielding the floor for another question. >> this will probably be my last question before i get to it, let me just say that, all the other senators that are -- >> i have no qualms if you want to talk a long time, no qualm. i've done it a time or it. >> mr. president, i'm lying to thank the senator from texas for coming to the floor and cheering me up. i was getting kind of tired. i appreciate bringing news from the outside world. have a standard where someone who we think might be a terrorist who we think might be engaged in something who is in a restaurant eating dinner would be killed. >> i think that's something

every member of this body should care about. it's not a republican question. it's not a conservative question. >> i've told them that i will remove myself from the blockage of john brennan's nomination as soon as we get some clarification from the white house. absolutely we're not going to be killing americans, not in a combat situation that we will obey the constitution. the fifth amendment does apply to all americans and there aren't exceptions. i thank you very much for the forebearance and i yield the floor. >> gretchen: that was last night. almost 1:00 a.m. last night. so michelle, what do you think about this poll? it's a little broad in the questioning. should the president have the authority to use drones to kill americans on american soil? 63% say no. i guess you could parts out that question, if there are known terrorists, does that change it for you at all? >> yeah. this is an incredibly complex issue. >> gretchen: no doubt. >> and the unfortunate reality

is that there was so little debate because these democrats have been so scared out of their pants to confront the issue because if the loser for obama and his narrative, dick durbin crept up on to the floor briefly to try and get clarity about some very basic policy issues about noncombatant versus combatant and imminent threat is really what's important here. if you added that wording to the question, it would be interesting to see what the changes in popular opinion on this because as many republicans who actually support a wide discretion during the war on terror under bush have pointed out, i mean, vice president cheney had put orders in to shoot down flight 93 which had a couple of hundred american citizens on board. and rand paul actually answered that question from dick durbin. these are the kind of questions

that the white house needs to be answering. we pointed out on twitchy last night, what was he doing? the white house and obama were posting pictures of snow days, frolicking around, you know, and all of the fluffy snow while the senate republicans were heating up the floor. >> brian: you mentioned dick cheney and everything. they can't get an agreement on this. everybody knows the challenge of the president with this war. if a terrorist shows up, i want to kill him. i want to bring to you dinner last night which we were not invited to with the president and 20 republican senators. first off, your take on legitimate hand out to republicans? >> well, definitely some kind of end run around the republican leadership here. i'm terrified to think of what the likes of lindsey graham and john mccain have been cook cooking up behind the scenes with the president last night. >> gretchen: why?

>> because i think that we are on the road to the very kind of shamnesty that mccain wanted under the previous administration and these are the kind of things that ought to be debated as they were last night on the senate floor in transparent light. look, we know this kind of politics goes on all the time. but there is a huge disparity, and this is a very stark contrast between the tea party, grassroots conservatives taking it to the floor, taking it to the obama and the old guard, the mash potato as somebody put it on twitter last night, of these old senate republicans doing the old way of doing business. >> gretchen: isn't it at least -- is it somewhat disingenuous to not give president obama at least a little credit for reaching out? i know it's five years later and he's been reelected and he could have done it a long time ago. >> steve: did he have a really bad week last week.

>> yeah. that's kinds of the point, gretchen. i mean, what has this guy done with the olive branch? he's either hidden it in a closet or used it and wielded it. what does he do? he pretends he's reaching out and then he takes that olive branch and beats them over the head with it. >> brian: i'm optimistic that paul ryan is coming over for lunch. so maybe they're going to -- next week it's meeting with john boehner and some house members. so maybe things are going to change. let's be optimistic. let's see. >> steve: all right. meanwhile, michelle, let's tell you about this, the state department is going to apparently honor what looks like an anti-semite and 9-11 supporter. here is a tweet that she sent out. quote, an explosion on a bus carrying israelis in the airport in bulgaria on the black sea. today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news. that doesn't seem like the kind of person we should be honoring. there is her photograph right there. >> yeah. that's really the nicest example

of her vitriol on twitter. the weekly standard has the run down that week of the september 11 anniversary, while we were suffering the losses of our personnel in benghazi, she was gloating that she wanted every 9-11 to be an event where america was, quote, burning. now this woman is being honored as some sort of freedom fighter and later why should this be any surprise, of course f a state department and a white house that rolls occupant the welcome mat to the likes of the muslim brotherhood and all sorts of anti-semitic, pro-jihadi operatives? >> steve: and where is the rest of the mainstream media? why aren't they talking about this? if this was a republican administration, you got to figure it's a big story. >> yeah. no question about it. unfortunately, at the state department is under both administrations had these proceed cliffities of reaching out to the very wrong kind of people who pose as moderate

muslims. >> steve: sure. don't they have google over there? all right. michelle malkin, the proprietior of twitchy.com. we thank you very much. have a great week. >> you bet. >> gretchen: coming up, do you have a question about your home loan or refinancing? the best guy in the business, bob massi, up next to answer your e-mails. >> brian: then hugo chavez hated america big time. so why is our flag being flown at half-staff to honor the dead dictator? who is dead, by the way ♪ some people will do anything to help eliminatlitter box odor.

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>> brian: navigating the world of real estate can often be time consuming and confusing. each week we get hundreds of e-mails from you looking to rebuild your dreams. real estate expert bob massi here to answer your questions. you ready for action?

>> brian, i'm always ready for you, buddy. go ahead. >> brian: let's go. let's go to lois from north carolina. says we filed for bankruptcy for florida and received a discharge of debt. soon after we were served with with a lawsuit. now we're very confused. what should we do? >> first of all, what happens a lot of times, brian, is people file bankruptcy, the debts are discharged. whoever the credit was turns it over to collection lawyers. they don't realize that there was actually a bankruptcy. there is a gap there. what she needs to do is contact the law firm, send a copy of the discharge of bankruptcy showing that that debt was discharged. send a registered letter confirming that to make sure that they don't get default judgment against her for not responding. be very pro-active. contact them. send a copy of that discharge and make sure you get on the phone and call them also. >> brian: greg is in georgia. he says this: we bought a home in 2006, refinanced in october of 2009. we did not put 20% down and we're paying for mortgage

insurance. how can we cancel that? >> brian, if you remember we talked, unless you have at least 22% or for equity in your home, you're going to be forced to carry that mortgage insurance under the fha guidelines. once you get up to past 22% equity in your home, let's say 30%, then you can contact the servicer of your loan, make sure that you have some type of comps to show that, in fact, you have equity after the 22%, and then they can't cancel the mortgage insurance. but they have to have proof that there is enough equity that meets the guidelines in order to cancel the mortgage insurance. >> brian: all right. paula says this: if i default on an fha loan, can they come after me to collect the debt? >> they shouldn't because if you had mortgage insurance at the time, which is what you paid for. what happens is on that default, the insurance will pay up to 85% of that deficiency and then the originator of the loan when you first got it pays 15%. so as long as you had that mortgage insurance in effect at the time of that default, you

should have no exposure whatsoever and not have to worry about being sued for a deficiency. >> brian: but it will affect your credit? >> any time you have a short sale, it will show on your credit no matter what. >> brian: thanks so much. >> thank you. >> brian: you are not a writeoff to us. 19 minutes after the hour. let me remind you to go to write bob massi and maybe your question will be on tv. big trouble for al gore over his al-jazeera dear. details coming your way. then brothers bobby and jimmy dean, their -- hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios

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>> steve: quick headlines on this thursday morning. sinkholes have been in the news after one in florida sexual swallowed up and killed a man who was sleeping in his bed. now we're getting a look at this one. this sinkhole is about 65 feet deep and 120 feet wide. look at those limestone deposits. sinkholes are usually filled with silt and sand, but erosion from water and water filtered in from an aquifer washed it away. suing for $5 million, claiming a man pitched the idea months earlier. no comment yet from mr. gore on the suit.

gretch? >> gretchen: thanks very much. for more than a year, southern chef paula deen has been coping with type 2 diabetes. the biggest change, her diet. she's not doing it alone. she's getting help from her two sons, bobby and jamie. they're making minor changes to the recipes, but still taste great. they're my guests this morning. >> thank you. good morning. >> gretchen: good morning. >> mama looks so great. that is an older picture. >> gretchen: that is, because she is slim and trim! she's at her fighting weight. >> she lost about 40 pounds. >> gretchen: you have always been -- >> look how fat i am. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: i was going to say, you've always been slim and trim. look how great you guys look in person! let's start out with french toast because when you think of french toast, you think of a lot of calories, but not in your recipe. what do you do to slim it down? >> we use many fresh ingredients as we can. if you look at this, it looks really decadent. fresh strawberries. we use a canola oil. we cut down the amount of butter

we use in all of these recipes. our family, ricotta cheese -- >> reduced everything. >> jamie and mom and i have teamed up to start a new campaign called diabetes in a new light because we want to encourage people to look at diabetes in a new light and understand that it doesn't have to steal your joy of food or cooking. >> and so good food can taste good. >> absolutely. >> you can make small changes and at the end of the day, you've got a satisfying meal that's really so much more healthy for you. >> gretchen: you cut the calories dramatically in that meal. now we'll go to the veggie burger, which i have to say, looks very hearty. it looks like that is -- >> you got mushrooms. a lot of proteins. we've got protein substitute in there, tomatoes, spinach. >> it's a hearty burger. >> gretchen: but you cut the calories? >> we bake it. >> you get rid of the beef. so you get rid of a lot of the fats that way. >> gretchen: you bake it? >> and you bake it. >> we serve it on a pita bun.

>> gretchen: now, the poundcake, you are almost going to not tell me the headline in this pound cake. what is the headline? >> there is a jar of baby food in there. >> pear baby food. >> gretchen: i used to eat baby food. >> a lot of people do. >> gretchen: don't you remember getting a spoon? it was a nice little snack. not the peas or the green beans, but the pears and fruit stuff. >> it's a nice substitute, as well as apple sauce. we were speaking a little bit about prunes being a nice substitute. you can replace butter with it. >> gretchen: i'll pass on the prunes, if you don't mind. >> it's really good for you. >> this is our grandmother's sour cream poundcake. we sub suit southed it with -- substituted it with buttermilk. you can use canned pears. >> and, in fact, we cut out more than 300 calories just from the french toast recipe alone. and, we have to say there is a contest going on. >> gretchen: i heard.

i wanted you to tell me about it. >> we are on the diabetes in a new light web site. go on and you can express how you have taken control of your type 2 diabetes, tell the story. and furthermore, talk about how you would like to continue to do so and we're going to have six people come to savannah and join me mom and me and jamie possibly. his youngest child has a birthday. >> the second birthday. >> gretchen: that will be a tough call. but that's an amazing gift or prize to the person. go to www.foxandfriends.com and we'll have contest web site information. >> it will be a good time. >> gretchen: thank you. >> good to see you. >> gretchen: thanks for all the great food. next up, hugo chavez hated america. so why is our flag being flown at half-staff to honor the dead dictator? then don't count him out. a youtube video got this 54-year-old knuckle baller a second chance in the major leagues. how well did he do? anna has his incredible story coming up ot what you think.

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is president obama looking to play let's make a deal on the budget crisis? in a few hours, he will have lunch with former vp nominee and house budget chairman, paul ryan. it comes 12 hours after he met with 20 republicans for dinner. senator pat toomey was on earlier to tell us how he thought it went. >> it was very candid. it was cordial but substantive. it really was. everybody had a chance to make points they wanted to make. there was back and forth. the idea wasn't that we were going to negotiate a deal last night. that was never part of the plan. that isn't going to happen over one dinner. but i think it was a constructive exchange. >> gretchen: wendell goler live at the white house with more. seems like there is going to be a lot more of these kind of meetings. what do you think? >> we have here is a charm offensive after republicans complained the president was trying to pressure them to agree to use increased tax revenue to lower the deficit with campaign-style rallies instead of talking to them. the president hosted republican

senators last night. there was no photo op. in recent days he has made quiet phone calls to a number of lawmakers trying to find the formula for another 1 1/2 trillion dollars in deficit reduction to end the across the board spending cuts known as the sequester. arizona senator john mccain joked the dinner was terrible and made sure we knew he was kidding. it was probably anything but terrible. restaurant in washington, jefferson hotel, and the white house says mr. obama personally picked up the check. south carolina senator lindsey graham drew up the guest list at the president's request and graham suggested he and mr. obama are really not that far apart. >> we got to do something structurally to save medicare and social security and republicans agreed the tax code is a mess and we can flatten out the tax code. we can raise revenue to buy down rates and pay some debt down. so we generally agreed on the nature of the problem. if we fail by trying, i'm okay. i'm not okay if we don't try.

i think tonight was the first step toward trying. >> it was apparently not the last step the president, as you say, hosting house budget committee chair paul ryan for lunch at the white house today. ryan is the author of the last two house budgets and the house is where mr. obama will have the toughest time getting an agreement. republicans there want to use increased tax revenue only to lower tax rates. maryland congressman chris van hollen will be here. he is the ranking democrat on the budget committee and then next week, the president goes up to capitol hill to meet with republicans on their own turf, the first time he's done that since 2010. gretchen? >> gretchen: wendell goler live in dc, a lot of action going on. thanks much. now the rest of the headlines. they knew an attack was coming. libyan officials warned the obama administration about our consulate being in danger just days before the benghazi terrorist attack. that's new news. and it's according to documents the administration just released to the senate, apparently. we're also being told white house and c.i.a. press officers were the ones responsible for removing the al-qaeda references

in the very important talking points. >> steve: meanwhile, thousands of hugo chavez's followers line the streets for a procession. we're being told the socialist president dictator died from a massive heart attack as he was battling cancer. the head of their presidential guard also revealed chavez, when he died, couldn't talk anymore. outrage this morning that citgo, the big oil company that is owned by venezuela, was flying both the u.s. and texas flags at half-staff in honor of chavez in texas. u.s. protocol allows for flags to be lowered for foreign dignitaries, but chavez was a frequent critic of our country, as you know. >> brian: vice president seems just as bad. the case is closed. police say no criminal charges will be filed in connection with the death of a woman who was refused cpr at the retirement home. listen. >> they're refusing cp, and let her die. as a human being, is there anybody there that is willing to help this lady and not let her

die? >> not at this time. >> brian: earlier the retirement home in california said the worker you just heard on tape failed to follow proper procedures and was on voluntary leave pending an investigation. the woman's family says they don't plan on suing the facility or any of its employees. so they've never been angry. >> gretchen: eight-year-old saved her friend's life thanks to something she says she learned on tv. they were eating lunch when one started choking on a piece of popcorn chicken. her classmates yelled for help but they got lost in the loud lunchroom. >> when they were yelling and she didn't come over action i just got up and put my hand right here and i did that three times. >> i think i choked because i was trying to talk and eat at the same time. >> gretchen: wow. it just goes to show how easily that can happen. hannah said she learned how it do the hiemlich maneuver from watching a tv show. congratulations. i know your friend is proud of you, too.

and thankful. >> brian: remember bob beckel was saved that way. >> steve: it works. hope everybody knows how to do that. the snow-quester, a no-quester in washington. forecasters called for ten inches of snow. those are images out of dc yesterday. but they didn't wind up with it. look at that. yesterday where they had snow and some rain. today not so much. >> brian: very nice. are you kidding? >> steve: this morning the storm moving east. new video of drivers dealing with a snowy and wet commute in bridgewater, massachusetts. those are new pictures we've got in. many flights already have been canceled. 450 so far today. janis dean, the cancellation machine, joins us right now with a hat to show that it's chilly here. >> i even believe my own forecast. >> steve: you were wrong yesterday. >> you know what? we were all wrong! not just me, but across the board. all of the dc meteorologists, five to eight inches of snow! snow-quester!

armageddon! close everything down and they got like not even an inch. we all got it wrong. but a little snow here in manhattan, just enough snow to wear this fancy hat for this live weather shot. i'll show where you the snow storm is. some of us actually got it right in interior sections of west virginia and the mountains in virginia where they got two feet of snow. it wasn't all a loss. look at the satellite radar imagery. a little snow activity around the new york area. long island, they're getting some snow, as well as up across connecticut and massachusetts. there is what we're dealing with, rain mixing with snow. could see heavy snow at times. wind gusts 50, 60 miles an hour. the heaviest snow will be west of the boston area. of course, we'll deal with coastal flooding and erosion all along, up and down the coast. just a real quick look, silver lining here, it's cold right now. but as we head into the weekend, saturday and sunday, we got to spring those clocks ahead, 50s and 60s for everybody! woohoo! back to you. >> gretchen: all right! looks like you got your hat in russia. i like it.

>> i feel like -- what was that movie -- >> steve: "moscow and the hudson"? >> no, no, dr. zhivago. >> brian: making the major leagues would be a dream for any baseball player. but how many of them would pursue that dream for more than two decades? >> steve: good question. anna kooiman knows one guy on a mission for that and joins us outside. hey. >> good morning. he may not look like your typical major league baseball player. this is 54-year-old tom wright joining us from arizona today. and you actually put out a video to 5,000 different people showing your strength. you say, i may not look like a baseball player burks i'm pretty good. >> i think i look like a baseball player. >> you stepped away from the game when you were how old to go on your church mission? >> 25. >> 25 years old. you came back and you had a tough time getting back into it. >> right. >> so what were the problems when -- if you say you're the

best, then why doesn't everybody else think so? >> i don't know. it's just the way baseball worked for decades, you know. i'm just saying, hey, let's look more at ability than age. >> and that's exactly what we're showing our viewers right now. you can dead lift 500 pounds. you got this crazy good knuckle ball. most pitchers hold it with two fingers. >> tim wakefield and others are so successful, they throw a two finger knuckle ball like this. i throw it three fingers. so i dig in with my three fingers. >> you got some amazing control on the ball. you say you can definitely throw strikes and you're getting a second chance. you've had some interest from the dodgers, cubs, marlins and tigers and what's that been like for you? >> i just had a tryout with the dodgers a week ago and tommy lasorda was there, so it was a great honor to have him see me throw. he said i had a good fast ball, which makes me feel good. one of the great legends of managers in america.

>> all right. we want to see it. so if go to our makeshift mound here, thanks to sports authority for hook me up with this glove. since it's not broken in, that's going to be my excuse, that and the rain. here we go. you got to go easy on me now. >> you want to see the knuckle ball? >> yeah, i want to see our knuckle ball and show our camera if you can, how you're holding it before you throw it to me. there you go. woo! that's awesome! tom, hopefully we'll see you out in the big leagues one day. you've been going for this since you were five years old playing with this knuckle ball pitch. we're happy to have you out here. good luck, all right? >> thank you very much. >> we may see new yankee stadium one day. back to you on the curvy couch. >> brian: is there a team -- anna, is there one team that has him in for tryout or just showing interest? is there a team that invited him in? >> is there a team that's actually invited you in for a full fledged tryout? >> i'm talking to the cubs'

owner right now. i mean, i've got his attention. >> all right. good luck to you. >> all right. thank you so much. >> steve: all right. thank you very much, tom and anna. >> gretchen: that would be great. it's an immigration plan you've never heard, buying your citizenship. should america sell it for 50 grand a person? the man with that plan here next. >> brian: and. >> steve: is that a ufo? >> brian: actor russell crowe thinks so. he took these pictures. he plays super hero in a movie [ female announcer ] you can make macaroni & cheese

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>> gretchen: quick head lines. did russell crowe really capture

photos of a ufo outside his office in australia? he posted this series of time lapse pictures condensed in a video to his twitter page. skeptics question it. but pros insist it wasn't a trick of the light or a camera flash. if you ever hit by a car, this would be the one you would want hitting you. kind of weird thought. volvo introduce ago pedestrian air bag on their new v 40 model. it deploys from under the hood. this is the area where most head injuries take place if a pedestrian accident. back upstairs to steve. >> steve: thanks very much, gretch. show uncle sam the money. forget all those complex immigration laws. our next guest says foreigners should be able to buy united states citizenship for -- we'll let him tell you. edward is a former chief economic advisor to president george w. bush and senior fellow with the hoover institution, joins us now from pal low alto. good morning to you. >> good morning. happy to be with you. >> steve: great to have you.

so you are suggesting that immigrants should be able to buy u.s. citizenship for how much? >> well, the price that we set is $50,000. but the reason is that there are really a few goals when you're thinking about immigration. the first thing we want to do is we want to make sure that we get skilled immigrants who are talented, who contribute to our economy and who also make themselves better off by coming. we also want to have a system that is able to deal with the almost 11 million illegals that are currently in the country right now. then the third is that we want it to be a fair system in that while this system sounds a bit radical and charging people for admission may sound like it's less fair, in fact, i would argue it's more fair because it creates an open environment where people who could never come from other countries now are able to come in. >> steve: now, let's say there are a lot of people, international residents who could afford it. but let's say there are people who could not. are you suggesting some sort of a loan program? >> exactly.

so one of the things we would permit is to have people be able to pay this off over time. so for example, if you take an individual, say, give you an example, specific example that we did when i was chairman of the council of economic advisors at the white house, we studied how much individuals earned, say, in mexico, relatively unskilled laborer in mexico and how much thenned in the united states. the difference is $10,000 a year. quite significant. so even if you adjust that for differences in the cost of living between the u.s. and mexico, it still means someone who comes in at 18, 20 years old could pay this off over a ten, 15-year period and still make a lot of money on the deal. so it would be very worthwhile for those individuals to come in. so in order to make sure that we don't get only the rich, we would allow financing over time. >> steve: okay. so you have some sort of a loan officer and you would figure it all out. some people really like this idea because number one, it does encourage immigration and we need skilled labor in this

country. number two, your suggestion could raise -- we've got a graphic to show it -- $50 billion each and every year if we were to charge people, you know, $50,000 to become u.s. citizens. >> right. that's right. of course, it depends on how many come in. what we would expect is at least during the first few years, we'd get probably more than the 1 million or so that are coming in legally right now because there is a back log, as you know, there is a large queue of people who would love to come into the united states. we're the team that everybody wants to play for. so for the first few years, we might even take in a good bit more revenue than that. but over time, we would expect this to level off at somewhere between 1 million and 1 1/2 million per year, particularly when we transform those who are coming in illegally right now into individuals who would then come in legally. >> steve: it is quite a suggestion. let's see what happens. ed joining us from palo alto

where the sun still hasn't come up. thank you very much. >> thanks a lot. nice to be with you. >> steve: nice to see you. all right. meanwhile, straight ahead, he took a city riddled with debt and unemployment and completely turned it around. now former new york city mayor la guardia's story is taking center stage with that man, the guy playing him in a story about his life, actor tony low beian co- joins us next. right now, martha mccallum will take the stage ten minutes from now. what's up? >> good morning. so fresh off of the dinner with gop senators, the president will have lunch in just a few hours with paul ryan today. a lengthy phone chat that sort of precipitated this a couple days ago. is this a tactical shift that is going on? senator bob corker, bret baier, doug and monica all weighed in on that. bill and i will see you right here at the top of the hour

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>> brian: he took a city in economic shamble, crippled by debt and unemployment and turned it around. now the story of former new york city mayor la guardia is taking center stage again in the big apple. >> gretchen: actor tony lobianco plays the little flower and he joins us live. good morning to you again. >> good morning. >> gretchen: you were here and you were doing a great show and then you took it to dc, right? >> i did indeed. >> gretchen: now you're back. >> it was a great experience because doing it in front of congress and our wounded warriors, our beautiful, precious wounded warriors, was exciting as heck. and also, they really reacted to it fantastically, nome did the congressmen, but the people in

washington. i said a line which i love, which is, listen, if i don't live up to my campaign promises, i want you to throw me the hell out of office. >> brian: and they laughed! >> they applauded that line, which gives us hope, folks. >> brian: i guess. >> gretchen: i hope so. >> steve: they probably not only loved your performance, but the message of la guardia, the mayor of new york city. >> brian: who got things done. >> he really got things done because he was a tough fellow. and he overcame all kind of odds against him. he was a fellow who had everything against him. he was a little short fat guy and they teased him when he was a kid. he had to fight through a lot. but he had to fight through all the other congressmen and all the other barriers in front of him and he fought through and won tremendously. how many served 12 years, three terms and then koch was after him, the only other three one. then bloomberg did it. but he was the world's mayor.

>> brian: he is rudy's idol. >> i know that. when i did the show on broadway, rudy, there is a picture of me in the newspaper with me in the middle holding up koch and rudy's hand. >> steve: one thing rudy never had though -- >> look at this. >> steve: look at the bottom of the shoe. where did you get these? >> boticelli. >> gretchen: he doesn't wear them on the street. >> who can wear them on the street? no, i wouldn't hurt that picture for the world. >> gretchen: it is like a piece of art. >> it is. >> gretchen: stick around, won't you? >> i will indeed. >> gretchen: we'll be right back gotcha !

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